Chen Quanguo

Chen Quanguo
Chen Quanguo
陈全国
	Chen in 2020
Communist Party Secretary of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
	In office; 29 August 2016 – 25 December 2021
Deputy	Shohrat Zakir; Erkin Tuniyaz (chairman);
General secretary	Xi Jinping
Preceded by	Zhang Chunxian
Succeeded by	Ma Xingrui
Communist Party Secretary of Tibet Autonomous Region
	In office; 25 August 2011 – 28 August 2016
Governor	Padma Choling; Losang Jamcan;
General secretary	Hu Jintao; Xi Jinping;
Preceded by	Zhang Qingli
Succeeded by	Wu Yingjie
Governor of Hebei
	In office; 15 December 2009 – 27 August 2011
Leader	Zhang Qingli (party secretary)
Preceded by	Hu Chunhua
Succeeded by	Zhang Qingwei
Deputy Head of the Central Rural Work Leading Group
	In office; 14 June 2022 – 22 October 2022
Leader	Hu Chunhua
Personal details
Born	November 1955 (age 68); Pingyu County, Henan, China
Political party	CCP (since 1976)
Alma mater	Zhengzhou University; Wuhan University of Technology;
Military service
Allegiance	China
Branch/service	People's Liberation Army
Years of service	1973–1977

Chen Quanguo (Chinese: 陈全国; pinyin: Chén Quánguó; born November 1955) is a Chinese retired politician who was the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Tibet Autonomous Region from 2011 to 2016 and of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region from 2016 to 2021, making him the only person to serve as the Party Secretary for both autonomous regions. Between 2017 and 2022, he was a member of the 19th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and was also Political Commissar of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps concurrently with his position as Xinjiang Party Secretary.

Originally from Henan, Chen was among the first batch of students to graduate university after the resumption of Gaokao examinations in 1978. Chen worked up the ranks in the party bureaucracy in his home province from a minor local official to the deputy provincial party chief. In 2009, he became Governor of Hebei. In 2011 he became the Communist Party Secretary, the top official, of the Tibet Autonomous Region, developing the region economically and instituting greater policing surveillance.^[1]^[2]

In 2016, Chen was promoted to the party secretary of Xinjiang. He has since then attracted press for overseeing Xinjiang internment camps targeting Turkic minorities in the region, and he is considered as one of the main architects of the persecution of Uyghurs in China.^[3] In both Tibet and Xinjiang, he has earned a reputation for applying draconian measures to sinicize the traditional cultures.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] In 2022, he was given a post in the Central Rural Work Leading Group of the CCP, and retired later that year after the 20th CCP National Congress, when he was not re-elected to the CCP Central Committee.

^ Ben Blanchard, China appoints new Tibet governor, hardline policies to remain, (29 January 2013), Archived 28 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine [Reuters ref dead, replaced with this ref]
^ Cite error: The named reference chinavitae was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "The Architect of China's Muslim Camps Is a Rising Star Under Xi". Bloomberg News. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
^ Michael Dillon, Lesser Dragons: Minority Peoples of China, Archived 13 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine Reaktion Books, 2018 ISBN 978-1-780-23952-1 p.155 :'Chen introduced new, draconian methods of repression, most of which he had rehearsed in Tibet.'
^ Gulbahar Haitiwaji with Rozenn Morgat Our souls are dead': how I survived a Chinese 're-education' camp for Uighurs,' Archived 12 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine The Guardian 12 January 2021
^ 'Uyghur jailed for nine years in secret trial,' Archived 16 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine Amnesty International 10 September 2020
^ 'Relentless Detention and Prosecution of Tibetans under China’s “Stability Maintenance” Campaign,' Archived 14 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine Human Rights Watch 22 May 2016

[1] Ben Blanchard, China appoints new Tibet governor, hardline policies to remain, (29 January 2013), Archived 28 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine [Reuters ref dead, replaced with this ref]

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[3] "The Architect of China's Muslim Camps Is a Rising Star Under Xi". Bloomberg News. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2022.

[4] Michael Dillon, Lesser Dragons: Minority Peoples of China, Archived 13 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine Reaktion Books, 2018 ISBN 978-1-780-23952-1 p.155 :'Chen introduced new, draconian methods of repression, most of which he had rehearsed in Tibet.'

[5] Gulbahar Haitiwaji with Rozenn Morgat Our souls are dead': how I survived a Chinese 're-education' camp for Uighurs,' Archived 12 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine The Guardian 12 January 2021

[6] 'Uyghur jailed for nine years in secret trial,' Archived 16 January 2021 at the Wayback Machine Amnesty International 10 September 2020

[7] 'Relentless Detention and Prosecution of Tibetans under China’s “Stability Maintenance” Campaign,' Archived 14 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine Human Rights Watch 22 May 2016

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